Elizabeth Pich and Jonathan Kunz - sometimes billed in the opposite order - create the War and Peas webcomic. It's usually four panels, usually standalone (with some recurring characters and occasional multi-strip "storylines"), and funny in an often abrasive, modern way.
Once Upon a Workday collects six pieces which are not comics: they're illustrated text, in the style most often seen in picture books. (The first story here has a very strong Dr. Seuss influence, though that tones down a bit in the later pieces.)
This is also much more earnest and positive than War and Peas - the strip tends to be cynical in its humor, but these stories are the kind of things that get called "self-care" or something vague about "mental health."
I tend to think books of positivity bombs like this are aimed at people substantially younger and more diffident than I am - and probably also those who are happier with fairly doggy verse as long as it mostly rhymes. So I did not perhaps engage deeply with this book, or think it is particularly inspiring or inspired.
But it does have six stories, with neat Pich/Kunz art, which give entirely positive lessons to readers, about common everyday (mostly work-life related) issues: disengaging, making the perfect sign-off to an email, creating work you don't hate, and just getting through every day. That has already been of use to a bunch of people, and likely will be to more - you may be one of them. And Pich and Kunz are not love-bombing here: they know modern life often sucks, and say so pretty clearly. This is about how to live through the suckiness.
I didn't personally need these lessons right this moment, but every book has a best time, place, and reader. This could be a really supportive one for the right situation.
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